Os troubles!

Hi ppl ! guess what ! I Vista 64 bit edition on my laptop! Not much different, but i upgraded from Home Premium to Ultimate! I even tried installing OSx. I had a session with the bootloader, and successfully created a dual boot menu.
Failure
Vista was installed and the disk was having about 9 gb of free space .I had never tried OS x before and i decided to go for it .It took nearly an hour to install, and finally it came to the booting part,there was no option in the windows boot loader. I had collected some material for the worst case scenario and began reading. And there it was! A nice set of commands to create a new entry in the boot menu ! I was happy enough to do it for maybe an hour. Finally, I saw that one component needed to be there as well ! A file called chain0 was missing. I downloaded it but of no use! I decided to leave it alone for now
.... is the stepping stone for success.
Using it as a windows partition was ultimately a waste, so i decided that i should install debian on it. I proceeded, and when the installation was 70% complete, it showed an installation media failure. I was really a bad day for me ! I removed the disk, opened it in windows, a=made an image with juicesoft bad dvd repair and then burnt it onto another dvd. This time, it did not fail, and the new os loaded successfully. Now i am running a debian -vista dual boot. it is cool, but if debian had grub skins, it would have been better.
Nothing much left to say! i barely studied 2 hours yesterday, and slept most of the day!
I downloaded bleach 175, watched and deleted the episode. I also read bleach -97 online.

Max all the way!
Coming to 3DS Max 2009, i downloaded it from the autodesk website as a 32 bit version. It is too good with its new wheels. I like it. I am feeling comfortable with it now because i have a 256 mb graphics card . Rendering is all done in a sec. Lets see how it finally turns out for me..

Getting warmed up!

Hi ppl. After a lot of laziness and a 15 hr sleep, i have decided to begin my preparations for study.
As a matter of fact, i wasted my holidays (not all of them, but many...) playing Ghost Recon and AOE on lan.
Lan gaming is a really addicting experience, once you get hooked, there's no going back.

I have my semester exams in NIIT this 28th.
My college starts from the 23rd.
My Cat classes have already started.

All these mean only one thing to me.. more exams .. more study.. more fun..

My NIIT
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The course which i am pursuing at NIIT is a "two and a half " year course, attractively named
" Integrated ANIIT for Engineers". There are five Semesters in the course, which covers all the topics from
C# to ado.net,core & advanced java,data structures, sql srvr, testing tools and windows application development.
We have exams at the end of every semester, apart from paper presentations, project work and seminars.
My primary purpose of joining NIIT was vendor certifications. Yes, international certifications from Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Cisco and Red Hat.

About certifications
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Everyone in the computer field has to understand one fact... the technology keeps changing on a daily basis, and we cant keep track of each and every change. We wont be proficient in any field if we dont update ourselves and prove potential employers that we are well worth it. blah blah blah

Thats what everyone else would say! but not me. I believe in a factor called "self satisfaction". I would like to be a microsoft certified developer, because, apart from looking good on my profile, it also increases the satisfaction of the customer . It would open up a whole new range of possiblities. well. this is my point of view.

Other Interests
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At present i have started learning Japanese actively. Hopefully I will be bloging in jap in a few months(just kidding). It is a self study from the materials online , but having watched over 500 hrs of japanese , i feel that is is not hard to speak at all. Writing is a different issue altogether. Hoping for the best results.Let's wait and see..


My accessories
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Apart from my Dell XPS, the only other electronic gadgets i own are An LG bullet mobile and a tattered PC (P4
240 gb,1.24 gb ram, 845 motherboard.)
I spend almost all of my time in front of the pc, but i do take breaks to talk. And when i start talking, the conversations extend to a greater part of 30 min when others make a call, and an obscene 30 to 40 sec whenever i call( if it is really urgent :) )
I am not particularly stingy, but only when it comes to mobiles bcos i am too lazy to go and buy a recharge card.
I never purchased a single one till now, and i own my mobile for nearly an year now !

Hi ppl. This is my photo, admittedly a low res, but i could resist posting it. One of the few ones in which i wear spectacles.
I decided to continue my education further rather than directly go for a job.
I am planning to do an MBA right in India, as it will provide me the necessary impetus and confidence to manage people and my performance in a team.
I have no intention in remaining as a mere programmer. I want to be much .much . more..than that. To fulfill my desires, I have decided to write the CAT conducted by the Indian Institutes of management.

I joined in IMS for CAT coaching. The classes are going on smoothly, and i am regularly practicing the work at home. However the level of preparation is not sufficient to get to the top. I write this sentence as a reminder to myself that i should work hard, without postponing my daily piece of study

in order to improve my vocab, as a first step, i am going to translate the above paragraph and embed it with vocab :)

i took guidance of IMS in my effort to project myself as a probable candidate for CAT.The classes are making an inintial progress.I need to reorganize or diversify in order to reach the summit. May this paragraph serve as a reminder, not to procrastinate , but to be competent and regular

My first Blog

Hi Friends!
This is my first one! I am just a little excited to share my experiences.
About Myself, there is much to say.
I am currently pursuing my Graduation in Computer Science
I am fond of Naruto and Bleach, and love to sit in front of the PC.
I play chess and read lots of books. I am interested in computer animation
I bought a new Dell XPS M1530 and it is totally awsome. I spend 10 hrs infront of it daily, learning Foreign languages or watching cartoons.
I have also started seeing Friends and Prison Break.( Both are too good)
I have an orkut account, Phani Kiran Challa, and my yahoo id is phantomphani@yahoo.co.in

Anyway, We have a forum at : www.tricktrick.freeforums.org
This is the place where all the links to material (books,movies softwares) are posted. Have a look at it.

I am currently using the BSNL 500C home plan, which allows me to download fr free from 2 am to 8 am, and i regularly do so.

I am planning to do my MBA and started preparation by joining IMS. Hoping to crack the CAT..
that's all for today.